Bryan Carney
@bryancarney.bsky.social
Main Geek @thetyee.ca & contributor there and elsewhere
was @bpcarney on the now musky smelling app
https://muckrack.com/bryan-carney/articles
Collecting material for last touches on book,
"The Internet Was Great but It's Time to Shut It Down"
was @bpcarney on the now musky smelling app
https://muckrack.com/bryan-carney/articles
Collecting material for last touches on book,
"The Internet Was Great but It's Time to Shut It Down"
Vancouver, too.
If i hadn't noticed a giant pickup truck driver NOT noticing me turning left on Davie from Burrard & darted JUST out of the way last week,
I'm certain he would have run me over
I screamed & he looked super shocked & apologetic. The front of his truck was close to my 6'1 head
If i hadn't noticed a giant pickup truck driver NOT noticing me turning left on Davie from Burrard & darted JUST out of the way last week,
I'm certain he would have run me over
I screamed & he looked super shocked & apologetic. The front of his truck was close to my 6'1 head
Let’s talk about the size of trucks & SUVs in the city. My column on the virtue & status signalling of vehicle bloat.
Shawn Micallef: This truck ad shows why Toronto needs smaller vehicles — if only the carmakers wanted to sell them
A car comically overloaded with plywood? It’s a good ad for a pickup — but also a sign of the incredible amount of money, weight and energy being wasted on
www.thestar.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Vancouver, too.
If i hadn't noticed a giant pickup truck driver NOT noticing me turning left on Davie from Burrard & darted JUST out of the way last week,
I'm certain he would have run me over
I screamed & he looked super shocked & apologetic. The front of his truck was close to my 6'1 head
If i hadn't noticed a giant pickup truck driver NOT noticing me turning left on Davie from Burrard & darted JUST out of the way last week,
I'm certain he would have run me over
I screamed & he looked super shocked & apologetic. The front of his truck was close to my 6'1 head
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We can also pilot a model that prioritizes stability over shareholder returns, transparency over marketing spin, and public interest over private margins. In a moment where economic insecurity is rising, cities need new tools. A city-run grocery should be one of them.
New in Perspectives: A New Kind of Corner Store
Public grocery stores are gaining ground in U.S. cities. Is it time for Canadian cities to do the same?
@vassb.bsky.social asks: if we can run public water and transit, why not food?
🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/municipal-grocery-stores/
Public grocery stores are gaining ground in U.S. cities. Is it time for Canadian cities to do the same?
@vassb.bsky.social asks: if we can run public water and transit, why not food?
🔗 perspectivesjournal.ca/municipal-grocery-stores/
A New Kind of Corner Store | Perspectives Journal
A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.
perspectivesjournal.ca
June 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We can also pilot a model that prioritizes stability over shareholder returns, transparency over marketing spin, and public interest over private margins. In a moment where economic insecurity is rising, cities need new tools. A city-run grocery should be one of them.
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A newly launched federal review of the Access to Information system is being greeted with deep skepticism by transparency advocates. Our story: tinyurl.com/2ukbm7y8 #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
Newly launched Access to Information review is flawed, transparency advocates say
OTTAWA – A newly launched federal review of the Access to Information system is being greeted with deep skepticism by transparency advocates. The Treasury Board Secretariat announced the governm...
tinyurl.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A newly launched federal review of the Access to Information system is being greeted with deep skepticism by transparency advocates. Our story: tinyurl.com/2ukbm7y8 #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
😂What is the actual point of Draisaitl’s mouthguard, literally never on his teeth
Only two players in NHL history have posted 10 goals and 20 assists in multiple postseasons:
◽️ Wayne Gretzky
◽️ Leon Draisaitl
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
◽️ Wayne Gretzky
◽️ Leon Draisaitl
www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
June 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
😂What is the actual point of Draisaitl’s mouthguard, literally never on his teeth
Noticing The Economist yanked this piece after publication?
"Carney's Collosal Canada-US pact", "It woudl give America a first right of refusal on Canadian minerals"
archive.is/MlS7x
"Carney's Collosal Canada-US pact", "It woudl give America a first right of refusal on Canadian minerals"
archive.is/MlS7x
June 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Noticing The Economist yanked this piece after publication?
"Carney's Collosal Canada-US pact", "It woudl give America a first right of refusal on Canadian minerals"
archive.is/MlS7x
"Carney's Collosal Canada-US pact", "It woudl give America a first right of refusal on Canadian minerals"
archive.is/MlS7x
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Bill C-2 has enormous implications for the privacy of Canadians. Buried toward the end is a law enforcement wish list that includes warrantless disclosure of information about Internet subscribers and unprecedented access to Internet provider networks.
bsky.app/profile/mgei...
bsky.app/profile/mgei...
Privacy At Risk: Government Buries Lawful Access Provisions in New Border Bill - my 2,600 word post on the history of lawful access and the new “information demand” power, global production orders, and new rules on law enforcement access to communications.
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/priv...
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/priv...
Privacy At Risk: Government Buries Lawful Access Provisions in New Border Bill - Michael Geist
The government yesterday introduced the Strong Border Act (Bill C-2), legislation that was promoted as establishing new border measure provisions presumably designed to address U.S. concerns regarding...
www.michaelgeist.ca
June 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bill C-2 has enormous implications for the privacy of Canadians. Buried toward the end is a law enforcement wish list that includes warrantless disclosure of information about Internet subscribers and unprecedented access to Internet provider networks.
bsky.app/profile/mgei...
bsky.app/profile/mgei...
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Wait a minute, though
Isn't Canada 🇨🇦 a signatory to the Joint Statement to control mercenary spyware? Doesn't that statement oblige countries to "establish robust guardrails" around spyware use?
Yes!
Has the govt delivered on those commitments? 😮💨
Nope
2021-2025.state.gov/joint-statem...
Isn't Canada 🇨🇦 a signatory to the Joint Statement to control mercenary spyware? Doesn't that statement oblige countries to "establish robust guardrails" around spyware use?
Yes!
Has the govt delivered on those commitments? 😮💨
Nope
2021-2025.state.gov/joint-statem...
Joint Statement on Efforts to Counter the Proliferation and Misuse of Commercial Spyware - United States Department of State
This Joint Statement was originally announced on March 30, 2023, at the second Summit for Democracy, with an inaugural group of eleven likeminded partners. Since then, it has been updated to reflect a...
2021-2025.state.gov
June 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Wait a minute, though
Isn't Canada 🇨🇦 a signatory to the Joint Statement to control mercenary spyware? Doesn't that statement oblige countries to "establish robust guardrails" around spyware use?
Yes!
Has the govt delivered on those commitments? 😮💨
Nope
2021-2025.state.gov/joint-statem...
Isn't Canada 🇨🇦 a signatory to the Joint Statement to control mercenary spyware? Doesn't that statement oblige countries to "establish robust guardrails" around spyware use?
Yes!
Has the govt delivered on those commitments? 😮💨
Nope
2021-2025.state.gov/joint-statem...
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Especially because we @citizenlab.ca discovered that Ontario Provincial Police are customers of Israel-based Paragon spyware used to silently hack phones of targets (and which is now implicated in government surveillance abuses in Italy 🇮🇹)
citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations - The Citizen Lab
In our first investigation into Israel-based spyware company, Paragon Solutions, we begin to untangle multiple threads connected to the proliferation of Paragon's mercenary spyware operations across t...
citizenlab.ca
June 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Especially because we @citizenlab.ca discovered that Ontario Provincial Police are customers of Israel-based Paragon spyware used to silently hack phones of targets (and which is now implicated in government surveillance abuses in Italy 🇮🇹)
citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
citizenlab.ca/2025/03/a-fi...
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An astonishing statistic. And the fact that we created a world where that is virtually logistically impossible is a real detriment and very sad.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:39 AM
An astonishing statistic. And the fact that we created a world where that is virtually logistically impossible is a real detriment and very sad.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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"The [Liberal Party] platform... suggests Solomon will have a massive job touching nearly every aspect of the economy and with national security considerations."
Yet CBC itself fails to mention they fired this dumbass for violating the most basic of journalistic ethics
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Yet CBC itself fails to mention they fired this dumbass for violating the most basic of journalistic ethics
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Canada now has a minister of artificial intelligence. What will he do? | CBC News
Canada has its very first minister of artificial intelligence in veteran broadcaster and newly elected Toronto Centre MP Evan Solomon. So what does that job exactly entail?
www.cbc.ca
May 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"The [Liberal Party] platform... suggests Solomon will have a massive job touching nearly every aspect of the economy and with national security considerations."
Yet CBC itself fails to mention they fired this dumbass for violating the most basic of journalistic ethics
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Yet CBC itself fails to mention they fired this dumbass for violating the most basic of journalistic ethics
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
TLDR:
Nothing currently proposed by any government has the slightest hope of addressing the housing crisis by basic math.
And even the inadequate things are proposed to take a decade and will probably take longer
Nothing currently proposed by any government has the slightest hope of addressing the housing crisis by basic math.
And even the inadequate things are proposed to take a decade and will probably take longer
Canada has a crazy housing crisis. Our new housing minister seems awfully concerned with the paper wealth of people who already have homes. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: Make housing cheaper without prices coming down? Mark Carney’s new housing minister is talking in riddles
Here’s a puzzle: How do you make homes more affordable without making them cost less?
www.thestar.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
TLDR:
Nothing currently proposed by any government has the slightest hope of addressing the housing crisis by basic math.
And even the inadequate things are proposed to take a decade and will probably take longer
Nothing currently proposed by any government has the slightest hope of addressing the housing crisis by basic math.
And even the inadequate things are proposed to take a decade and will probably take longer
Relations resuming as normal after this really does seem like it was the beginning of the current era of not bothering pretending authoritarians will be checked
Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post.
techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain | TechCrunch
Amazon says it'll work with Humain, the AI company recently launched by Saudi Arabia’s ruler, to invest '$5 billion-plus' in a strategic partnership.
techcrunch.com
May 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Relations resuming as normal after this really does seem like it was the beginning of the current era of not bothering pretending authoritarians will be checked
Canadians and journalists especially must not let this scandal go
There was absolutely no ambiguity in the inappropriateness of Solomon’s ethic breaches & it bodes terribly for his integrity as a pub official
…and for 🇨🇦 that Carney calculated: No political price appointing his very art dealer
There was absolutely no ambiguity in the inappropriateness of Solomon’s ethic breaches & it bodes terribly for his integrity as a pub official
…and for 🇨🇦 that Carney calculated: No political price appointing his very art dealer
I had high hopes for Mark Carney, but then he created a Ministry of AI and appointed Evan Solomon to the position www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file... Morning File by me
I had high hopes for Mark Carney, but then he created a Ministry of AI and appointed Evan Solomon to the position - Halifax Examiner
Smart and savvy central bankers like Mark Carney are supposed to be above this. They're supposed to be able to see through the hype machine, and help steward the economy around it. Instead, Carney has...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
May 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Canadians and journalists especially must not let this scandal go
There was absolutely no ambiguity in the inappropriateness of Solomon’s ethic breaches & it bodes terribly for his integrity as a pub official
…and for 🇨🇦 that Carney calculated: No political price appointing his very art dealer
There was absolutely no ambiguity in the inappropriateness of Solomon’s ethic breaches & it bodes terribly for his integrity as a pub official
…and for 🇨🇦 that Carney calculated: No political price appointing his very art dealer
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In February when Pierre Poilievre was holding a rally in downtown Ottawa, Bruce Fanjoy was door-knocking in Carleton.
I asked Fanjoy, who was considered at the time a major underdog, why this was so personal for him.
Carleton agreed with his pitch, denying Poilievre his seat.
I asked Fanjoy, who was considered at the time a major underdog, why this was so personal for him.
Carleton agreed with his pitch, denying Poilievre his seat.
April 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In February when Pierre Poilievre was holding a rally in downtown Ottawa, Bruce Fanjoy was door-knocking in Carleton.
I asked Fanjoy, who was considered at the time a major underdog, why this was so personal for him.
Carleton agreed with his pitch, denying Poilievre his seat.
I asked Fanjoy, who was considered at the time a major underdog, why this was so personal for him.
Carleton agreed with his pitch, denying Poilievre his seat.
👀🦅 for this painting Solomon sold to Carney to show up @PMO
April 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
👀🦅 for this painting Solomon sold to Carney to show up @PMO
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Not our beloved Fraser Street... My heart is broken. I feel so sick reading the horrific details of what people experienced at this evening's attack. This is a violent violation of a special safe place shared by so many, on a day to celebrate Lapu Lapu. Take care of each other.
April 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Not our beloved Fraser Street... My heart is broken. I feel so sick reading the horrific details of what people experienced at this evening's attack. This is a violent violation of a special safe place shared by so many, on a day to celebrate Lapu Lapu. Take care of each other.
this sounds familiar...
Liberal Leader Mark Carney is promising a review of Canada's Access to Information system if his party wins the federal election, suggesting he sees room for improvement in how the law works. Our story: tinyurl.com/pc547asm #cdnfoi #elxn45
Liberal leader Carney commits to review of federal Access to Information system
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney is promising a review of Canada's Access to Information system if his party wins the federal election, suggesting he sees room for improvement in how the law works.
tinyurl.com
April 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
this sounds familiar...
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Reporters Without Borders "calls on all political parties to explain to Canadians how they will strive to modernize the federal Access to Information Act once in government." #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
rsf.org/en/canada-rs...
rsf.org/en/canada-rs...
April 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Reporters Without Borders "calls on all political parties to explain to Canadians how they will strive to modernize the federal Access to Information Act once in government." #cdnfoi #cdnpoli
rsf.org/en/canada-rs...
rsf.org/en/canada-rs...
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The Bellingcat Auto Archiver is an essential tool for online investigations, helping you to secure the source material crucial for your research. We now have a brand new version of the tool, find it here: github.com/bellingcat/a...
Release v1.0.0 · bellingcat/auto-archiver
🎉 Auto Archiver v1.0.0
We're excited to announce a major stable release of the Auto Archiver tool!
This release comes with some major improvements in stability and flexibility, with a modular and e...
github.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The Bellingcat Auto Archiver is an essential tool for online investigations, helping you to secure the source material crucial for your research. We now have a brand new version of the tool, find it here: github.com/bellingcat/a...
Let's say you HAD give a probabililty score, @rondeibert.bsky.social ? :D
March 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Let's say you HAD give a probabililty score, @rondeibert.bsky.social ? :D
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A good reminder: The app is secure, but the phones may not be. Very few organizations mandate that personal phones be checked and monitored.
Meanwhile, there's an unregulated mercenary spyware sector selling to any govt client the ability to hack any phone, anywhere in the world...
Meanwhile, there's an unregulated mercenary spyware sector selling to any govt client the ability to hack any phone, anywhere in the world...
March 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
A good reminder: The app is secure, but the phones may not be. Very few organizations mandate that personal phones be checked and monitored.
Meanwhile, there's an unregulated mercenary spyware sector selling to any govt client the ability to hack any phone, anywhere in the world...
Meanwhile, there's an unregulated mercenary spyware sector selling to any govt client the ability to hack any phone, anywhere in the world...
MAYBE INSTEAD OF DITCHING THIS RARE WIN VS OLIGARCHY: get together with the G7 countries with your outsized influence and agree on a minimum corporate & gains tax rate across the board....
& build the strongest economy in G7 NOT via a race to the bottom on the rich contributing anything?
& build the strongest economy in G7 NOT via a race to the bottom on the rich contributing anything?
My government is cancelling the capital gains tax hike. We’re going to incentivize builders, innovators, and entrepreneurs to grow their businesses right here in Canada and create more good-paying jobs.
It’s time to build the strongest economy in the G7.
It’s time to build the strongest economy in the G7.
March 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
MAYBE INSTEAD OF DITCHING THIS RARE WIN VS OLIGARCHY: get together with the G7 countries with your outsized influence and agree on a minimum corporate & gains tax rate across the board....
& build the strongest economy in G7 NOT via a race to the bottom on the rich contributing anything?
& build the strongest economy in G7 NOT via a race to the bottom on the rich contributing anything?
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Did you know there’s a group of Canadian tech CEOs who want a “DOGE” for Canada? My chat with @parismarx.com:
Elon Musk’s DOGE is wreaking havoc in the US, but tech leaders in Canada want their own DOGE to do much the same.
This week @jenstden.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the effort to bring the conservative-tech alliance north.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/268_...
This week @jenstden.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the effort to bring the conservative-tech alliance north.
Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/268_...
March 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Did you know there’s a group of Canadian tech CEOs who want a “DOGE” for Canada? My chat with @parismarx.com:
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2/ I wrote at the beginning of the @teslatakedown.com boycott that it had the feel of what happened around apartheid, in part because it's protesting the heir of apartheid: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Elon Musk, apartheid, and America's new boycott movement
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
www.motherjones.com
March 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
2/ I wrote at the beginning of the @teslatakedown.com boycott that it had the feel of what happened around apartheid, in part because it's protesting the heir of apartheid: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...